Signaling from β‐adrenoceptor to L‐type calcium channel: identification of a novel cardiac protein kinase A target possessing similarities to AHNAK

A novel calcium channel‐associated protein of ~700 kDa has been identified in mammalian cardiomyocytes that undergoes substantial cAMP‐dependent protein kinase (PKA) phosphorylation. It was therefore designated as phosphoprotein 700 (pp700). The pp700 interacts specifically with the β2 subunit of cardiac L‐type calcium channels as revealed by coprecipitation experiments using affinity‐purified antibodies against different calcium channel subunits. It is surprising that amino acid sequence analysis of pig pp700 revealed homology to AHNAK‐encoded protein, which was originally identified in human cell lines of neural crest origin as 700‐kDa phosphoprotein. Cardiac AHNAK expression was assessed on mRNA level by reverse transcriptase‐polymerase chain reaction. Sequence‐directed antibodies raised against human AHNAK recognized pp700 in immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation experiments, confirming the homology between both proteins. Anti‐AHNAK antibodies labeled preferentially the plasma membrane of cardiomyocytes in cryosections of rat cardiac tissue and isolated cardiomyocytes. Sarcolemmal pp700/ AHNAK localization was not influenced by stimulation of either the PKA or the protein kinase C pathway. In back‐phosphorylation studies with cardiac biopsies, we identified distinct pp700 pools. The membrane‐associated fraction of pp700 underwent substantial in vivo phosphorylation on β‐adrenergic receptor stimulation by isoproterenol, whereas the cytoplasmic fraction of pp700 was not accessible to endogenous PKA. It is important that in vivo phosphorylation occurred in that pp700 fraction which coprecipitated with the calcium channel β subunit. We hypothesize that both phosphorylation of pp700 and its coupling to the β subunit play a physiological role in cardiac β ‐adrenergic signal transduction. Haase, H., Podzuweit, T., Lutsch, G., Hohaus, A., Kostka, S., Lindschau, C., Kott, M., Kraft, R., Morano, I. Signaling from β‐adrenoceptor to L‐type calcium channel: identification of a novel cardiac protein kinase A target that has similarities to AHNAK. FASEB J. 13, 2161–2172 (1999)

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